A Tragedy of Fashion; or, The Scarlet Scissors (1926)

A Ballet by Ashley Dukes

MUSIC

Eugene Goossens, arranged by Ernest Irving (Kaleidoscope, for piano, opus 18)

SCENERY & COSTUMES

F.E.D. (Sophie Fedorovitch)

DANCERS

Monsieur Duchic (a costumier): Frederick Ashton; Orchidée (his partner): Marie Rambert; Model ‘Rose d’Ispahan’: Frances James; Model ‘Désir du Cygne’: Elizabeth Vincent; The Viscountess Viscosa: Esme Biddle; The Viscount Viscosa OBE: W Earle Grey

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 15 June 1926

New Stagings / Productions

Mayfair Company of English Dancers, 1926

NEW PRODUCTION

Mayfair Company of English Dancers; solo for M Duchic only, under the title Youth – ‘The Swaggerer’

DANCERS

Frederick Ashton

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Royal Academy of Music, London, 29 November 1926

Pupils of Marie Rambert, 1928

NEW PRODUCTION

Pupils of Marie Rambert; solo for Rose d’Ispahan only, under the title Mannequin Dance

DANCERS

Diana Gould

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Arts Theatre Club, London, 9 March 1928

At a performance by Diana Gould and Harold Turner at the Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, 8 October 1928, the programme included a short suite called Mannequin and her Beau, in three parts – She, He, and Pas de deux – of which the first was Mannequin Dance. Later, they sometimes danced the Pas de deux as a pendant to her solo, but according to Marie Rambert she herself arranged this. Mannequin Dance was included in the divertissements at the first performance by the Marie Rambert Dancers at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 25 January 1930, and thereafter

Ballet Rambert, 1986

NEW PRODUCTION

Ballet Rambert; solo for Rose d’Ispahan only, under the title Mannequin Dance

REPRODUCED BY

Frederick Ashton and Diana Gould

DANCERS

Sara Matthews

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 11 June 1986